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Name: This Is Elvis
Released: 1981-4-10
Cast: David Scott, Paul Boensch, Johnny Harra, Lawrence Koller, Rhonda Lyn

This Is Elvis

PG
1h 41m
1981

89%

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He never played to an unsold seat. Better known by his given name than anyone else, his voice has been heard by more people than any other performer's. His motion pictures became box office triumphs on the strength of his name alone. His raw talent, which sprang from America's Southern backwoods, changed the course of popular music and culture. On the day Elvis Presley died--August 16, 1977--there was pandemonium outside his Memphis home and around the world. He was only 42, and to millions he was magic. Now producer David L. Wolper uses his camera to probe the mystique of a superstar in This Is Elvis.

Director:

Malcolm Leo, Andrew Solt

Producer:

Malcolm Leo, Andrew Solt, David L. Wolper

Writer:

Malcolm Leo, Andrew Solt

Cast:

David Scott, Paul Boensch, Johnny Harra, Lawrence Koller, Rhonda Lyn, Debbie Edge, Larry Raspberry, Dana MacKay

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

89%

Reviews

Globe and Mail

Jay Scott

It's a portrait of a face full of wounds, warts and wonders.

This Is Elvis is at its best when focusing on archival footage but this docudrama depends way too much on reenactment footage during the first half, for better or worse.

The biggest issue with This Is Elvis is that it reduces the life of a singer who has become a myth to four biographical facts. [Full Review in Spanish]

Unlike previous documentaries, this one focuses on the star's life more than his music and gives the best hints yet of why Presley's skyrocket ride to stardom led him to self-destruct.

Although the film resembles a child's drawing of a life, it is enlivened by the use of documentary material which, if it does nothing else, at least recreates that era When 'rock-and-roll' was seen as the harbinger of things to come.

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